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Re: [gNewSense-users] Compatible Video Cards with 3D Acceleration


From: Josh Martens
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Compatible Video Cards with 3D Acceleration
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:40:47 +1200
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I spoke with the nouveau guys and they said there there was a bunch of hex in 
the code, that they didn't really understand and manipulating it was just guess 
work, they didn't really understand it.

I hear the Intel 965 is quite good.

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:26:33PM -0400, Kevin M. Dean wrote:
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> As of this moment, there are no non-Intel (integrated) video cards that
> support stable 3D acceleration using Libre drivers. The Radeon driver
> distributed with Xorg is under a Free Software license but it contains
> microcode that can't be adapted, modified and learned from. This is why
> it was removed from gNewSense. Microcode in this manner restricts
> freedoms 1 and 3.
> 
> However, the Nouveau project is working on filling this lack: A 3D
> accelerated driver for all but the oldest nVidia cards without binary
> blobs or microcode. Some of the developers have gotten glxgears to run,
> so this is TECHNICALLY Libre 3D, but it's not useful for day-to-day use.
> 
> I made my buying decision based on this and purchased an nVidia GeForce
> 7600 GS, installed the non-free nVidia driver, ran REnouveau and then
> dropped to the stable(ish) 2D nouveau driver once that was done.
> 
> You can find more on Nouveau here: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> 
> 
> 
> Romel Sandoval wrote:
> > I am looking for an AGP8X gNewSense Compatible Video Cards with 3D
> > Acceleration. I see on the FSF site [1] but apart from the ATI cards all
> > are integrated. And AFAIK gNewSense removes the ATI support modules from
> > the kernel. Help please!
> > 
> > [1] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/video
> > 
> > 
> > 
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